I'm not saying this is it, 3dobermans, but Avast, my antivirus program, has been pestering me Very Annoyingly for the last week to buy another year's subscription, popping up in the middle of a game and tossing it to the task bar. They pestered me so badly I had already decided to tell them to take a hike. I was about to when I got a little note from Malwarebytes about updating. I couldn't. I couldn't do a thing with it and 'the server could not be found, please report the error' but there was no error number to report.

Okay, I uninstalled Avast early. Not only was I able to get Malwarebytes updated but my email program started working again and I'd been trying all day to figure out why no emails were coming in and I was getting an error report about Live Mail.

As far as I'm concerned that was not a coincidence. I downloaded MS Security Essentials and that is darn well that.

Er...in short, could it be your antivirus program stopping the update?

Gil.

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Ran the old malwarebytes and found a worm (backdoor.bot) and think it's now gone. Then ran Avast and it found nothing.This morning uninstalled/reinstalled malwarebytes per cnet and still get server not found when trying to update. Have tried several times to just access malwarebytes.com but nothing.Would it be better to go with a different anti-malware program?

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Do you run anything else, Rushes? Malwarebytes isn't an antivirus program. I believe both are intended as a supplement to an antivirus program rather than a replacement for one.

I should make it clear if I haven't already that I do not think any of my problems with Malwarebytes or my email program stemmed from Malwarebytes. It's a good program and I've been very satisfied with it.

IMO, you'd do better to change your AV, 3dobermans.

Gil.

Edited by traveler (04/25/1301:40 PM)Edit Reason: more opinion

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"Best not to think about it. I don't want to fall to bits 'cos of excess existential thought."

I have Malwarebytes as my main realtime program, and run the free version of SuperAntiSpyware every fortnight or so. Reason being, one program will occasionally pick up on something that the other program will not. Nothing's infallible, after all.